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The Washington Center: Creating leaders
for 25 years
TCU joined
ranks with The Washington Center in 1978, only three years after the nonprofit
center was founded to provide an internship program wedded to academic
seminars in the nation's capital. More than 800 colleges and universities
nationwide are affiliated with the center, which offers 2,000 to 3,000
internship opportunities in the private, public and nonprofit sectors
each year. More than 300 TCU students are numbered among its 25,000 alumni.
Each semester
more than 600 students take advantage of a variety of experiential settings -- which
are not limited to the traditional Capitol Hill or political internships.
Students regularly intern in embassies, government agencies and businesses.
The Washington Center interns are required to work full time or a minimum
of thirty-five hours a week. As a result, they are frequently given the
best placements and often supervise interns from other programs.
During their
semester in Washington, the center offers, among other perks, a congressional
breakfast series, a presidential lecture series, the embassy visit program,
small group discussions and professional workshops and help putting together
their internship portfolio.
TCU students
apply each fall, a year in advance of their internship, and are required
to attend a noncredit preparatory seminar in the spring. Students may
earn up to 15 hours of credit through this program, which is multi-disciplinary
and available to students in any major field.
The center
provides students with placements, supervision, and housing during their
semester in the nation's capital. The primary academic advantage provided
by The Washington Center is that participants receive course credit directly
from their university, rather than from the program itself. This allows
universities to mandate the amount and type of credit students receive,
and eliminates the need to transfer credits from another institution.
Go to www.twc.com
for information.
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